On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Pekka Nikander wrote: > Unfortunately, this method is encumbered by IPR claims from Microsoft > and Ericsson, and therefore it received violent opposition at the > mobile-ip working group. As a result, the MIPv6 Design Team resolved > to the more modest proposal of just allocating the bits, in the > hope that the IPR issues could be dealed in a way or another.
"We (MIPv6) can't use it due to IPR, so we'll just move the problem to ipng and have them reserve bits in the address instead"...? Doesn't sound discouraging enough to me. We MUST NOT reserve bits in the address to support IPR'd mechanisms. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
